I read Swamplandia! for book club. And if it weren’t for book club I would have never slogged through it. I understand that many people like this book.
But I hated it.
I don’t want to give away anything, but I’ll warn that there are sensitive subjects in the book. It’s disturbing in many parts (at least for me) and neither the plot, nor the storytelling were interesting/wonderful enough to compensate for it.
If you read this and liked it, I’d love to know why. If you haven’t, it’s skippable in my opinion.
I just downloaded the audio of this and started listening to it on the treadmill. The reader’s voice is bugging me so much (it sounds like a woman trying to sound girlish) that I’m not sure the story is strong enough to get me through…